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“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
― Lloyd Alexander

“The things that make me different are the things that make me.”
― A. A. Milne

“Male or female, if my name were either Don or Dawn, I’d be up at sunrise to celebrate the glory that is me.”
― Jarod Kintz, 99 Cents For Some Nonsense

“The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them -- words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller but for want of an understanding ear.”
― Stephen King

“For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“Every woman draws a circle around herself. Sometimes she has to be the only thing inside it.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Once and Future Witches

“Let the self judge the right and the wrong, let others decide to praise or to blame, let gains and losses remain uncommented on. I, too, know what i should and shouldn't do”
― Mò Xiāng Tóngxiù, 魔道祖师 [Mó Dào Zǔ Shī]

“As a human being who cannot live without love, I know full well that I have exhausted my options on this disappointing planet. The question is no longer 'Who are the people who will accept my unusual love?' but rather 'How do I make my love more unusual and more unacceptable”
― Esther Yi, Y/N

“It's a cruel and random world, but the chaos is all so beautiful.”
― Hiromu Arakawa

“Father, I am what you made me. I’ve become your daughter after all.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“Having men want to rescue you was worlds different than simply having a female friend who had your back. If she needed a body buried, the only question Marguerite would ask was, 'How deep?”
― T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Grace

“No one controls your destiny. Even at the very worst - there is always choice.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“I don't know what it is like to not have deep emotions. Even when I feel nothing, I feel it completely”
― Sylvia Plath

“I teach you to be warriors in the garden so you will never be gardeners in the war.”
― Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone